Nicolas, further on this: I got my original document working. I had a d:nil line hidden away in the document which took precedence over my other attempts to ask for drawers to be exported. Sorry about bothering everybody with this.
However, I am still having some strange random behaviour to do with BIND and multiple invocations of export. I use BIND to change the formatting for active and inactive time stamps on latex export and it works sometimes but is ignored other times. I've not figured out a deterministic recipe to have this consistently repeatable yet but, if and when I do, I will post here. Thanks again, eric -- : Eric S Fraga, GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D : in Emacs 24.3.50.1 and Org release_8.0-alpha-307-g3a0e55.dirty